George Pataki Quotes

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

I received free health care.

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

Medicaid and the Child Health Insurance Program are the two most important safety net programs for children.

Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

You know, there are people making a lot of money in this country who can actually afford their own health care. We are in a situation where we got a safety net in place in this country for people who frankly don't need one. We got to focus on making sure we got a safety net for those who actually need it.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty.

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay.

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

It boggles my mind that the same people who cry 'foul' about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people - elders, the poor, the disabled - who are least able to bear them.

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

I'm wondering if they haven't reported all the people with MS, because if all of the cases were reported, the government would have to step in and give more financial aid to us.

I will continue to support legislation that provides American families and Seniors affordable health care.